Geographical information system application to building maintenance:case study on maintenance of 13th asian games athlete village, thailand

Abstract: This paper is concerned with application of Geographic Information System (GIS) to buildingmaintenance of the 13th Asian Games Athlete Village at Thammasat University, Rangsit campus inThailand. The Athlete Village, which can accommodate 9,800 persons, is comprised of 23buildings. The application was done by using the abilities of graphic attachment and capability forstoring data of GIS. In addition, the Network Analyst Extension, which is one of the functions ofthe currently adopted program (ArcView GIS), was used to deal with the complex buildingnetworks such as pipeline system. Furthermore, some maintenance data were stored to provide asdatabase according to building maintenance management.